2550mm bathroom wall panels?

[Buzz]

Build is moving on slowly but it is going forward,  shower trays are in and flooring down in all bathrooms and was measuring up today for wetwall type panel ready to put an order in when it dawned on me that the panels we were looking at are only 2400mm tall and we need 2550mm , don't really want to leave 150mm at the top just painted wall any ideas where I can get bigger panels or what work arounds there are ? 

[Mr Punter]

I have only seen them 2400.  You could do a drop ceiling / concealed lighting / extractor at the top?  Quite a hassle compared to just having a taller panel though.

[Conor]

Cut them down to 2100mm to match the top of your door architraves. That's what we did at our last place. Gives you a good 400mm to the ceiling and it looks right.

[Adsibob]

Or do what I did, which on reflection was madness, but it worked out really well:

we bought large format porcelain tiles 3200 by 1600 and had them delivered directly to a specialist water jet cutting company which was also doing our kitchen worktops. They cut them to the height we needed and also cut some 2800 by 40 strips for us to clad a curved wall with. They delivered them, and somehow my tiler installed them without any breakages. Shower looks epic. I remember posting about it here at the time and everyone thought I was mad, but we pulled it off.

[Adsibob]

  On 24/10/2022 at 17:22, Conor said:

Cut them down to 2100mm to match the top of your door architraves. That's what we did at our last place. Gives you a good 400mm to the ceiling and it looks right.

Expand  

This is also a good option. We actually have a slightly dropped ceiling above our shower area to allow for some MVHR pipes to run through into the next room and also to allow a recess for some LED strip lights to give mood lighting to the shower area. 

[Buzz]

  On 24/10/2022 at 17:21, Mr Punter said:

I have only seen them 2400.  You could do a drop ceiling / concealed lighting / extractor at the top?  Quite a hassle compared to just having a taller panel though.

Expand  

Had crossed my mind but so much work especially as mvhr and lights are in plastered and ceiling painted , wishing I had spotted the problem earlier 

[Buzz]

  On 24/10/2022 at 17:22, Conor said:

Cut them down to 2100mm to match the top of your door architraves. That's what we did at our last place. Gives you a good 400mm to the ceiling and it looks right.

Expand  

Thanks @Conor will try and find some pics , sounds like a simple solution. 

[Buzz]

  On 24/10/2022 at 17:27, Adsibob said:

Or do what I did, which on reflection was madness, but it worked out really well:

we bought large format porcelain tiles 3200 by 1600 and had them delivered directly to a specialist water jet cutting company which was also doing our kitchen worktops. They cut them to the height we needed and also cut some 2800 by 40 strips for us to clad a curved wall with. They delivered them, and somehow my tiler installed them without any breakages. Shower looks epic. I remember posting about it here at the time and everyone thought I was mad, but we pulled it off.

Expand  

Sounds amazing,  showers are wall to wall 900mm x 1200mm x 900mm two of and 1000mm x 2000mm x 1000mm do you think £1500 Will cover it 🤣.

[Adsibob]

  On 24/10/2022 at 18:14, Buzz said:

Sounds amazing,  showers are wall to wall 900mm x 1200mm x 900mm two of and 1000mm x 2000mm x 1000mm do you think £1500 Will cover it 🤣.

Expand  

The tiles themselves were expensive. But they were so big I only needed two. But the cutting was only about £400 (I paid cash) and delivery was free because they delivered at same time as delivering and installing our worktops. Otherwise I would have had to pay an extra £180 for delivery as they needed a special truck that could lift the tiles. It would have been a lot more expensive if we had cracked a tile on installation, but luckily we didn’t. 

[dpmiller]

  On 24/10/2022 at 21:12, Adsibob said:

It would have been a lot more expensive if we had cracked a tile on installation,

Expand  

 

 

"we"?

[Adsibob]

  On 25/10/2022 at 06:01, dpmiller said:

 

 

"we"?

Expand  

The tiler installed them, but not before I had to pick up lots of 2800 by 40 strips (which at only 6mm thick, were incredible brittle) and organise them into the right order. The water jet  cutting co were great, but one mistake them made was that they forgot to label the strips, which meant sorting them into the correct order was a time consuming and risky business! I think I spent 1.5 days doing it.

[mjsx]

 

  On 25/10/2022 at 13:17, Adsibob said:

and organise them into the right order

Expand  

Oh, you mean there was a pattern you needed to recreate jigsaw puzzle-style?! Ok that is madness!

[Adsibob]

  On 06/10/2023 at 10:39, mjsx said:

 

Oh, you mean there was a pattern you needed to recreate jigsaw puzzle-style?! Ok that is madness!

Expand  

Yes, there was a fake rock grain that looked very realistic, and would have been a shame to lose it. So I’m still glad I spent so long fixing that mud-labelling error.